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Authors: Inna Segal
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emotionally and ener-
getically compatible with your partner. If you were honest, you would confront your
partner and work together on changing your relationship, or choose to leave the rela-
tionship. This would require courage, trust, candor and a lot of personal growth.
However, if you were to keep suppressing the fact that your relationship is not working
because you are afraid of being alone, you might become negative, aggressive, lie, cheat,
or cause destruction in your life and create dis-ease just to be safe.
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A huge part of your healing journey is to confront your shadow aspect and take
back your power, your life force energy, and expand your freedom and the choices avail-
able to you.
Colin’s Story: Confronting the Shadow
Colin, a successful businessman, was married with four children. When Colin
first called me for a distance healing, he was extremely secretive and pro-
tective. While I was tuning into him, I received an image of a frog who was
trying to pass himself off as a prince. (I often see archetypal images that
help me to understand what is really going on in a person’s life.)
I had a strong impression that he was dishonest and destructive in his
life. After a little prodding, I discovered that Colin was trying to be a savior
to women who had been abused and who were often deeply unhappy.
His mother had experienced severe abuse from his father and had lost
several members of her family in her youth. As a child, Colin stood helplessly
by her side, watching her suffer. By trying to help the women who showed
up in his adult life, Colin was trying to save his mother. The problem was that
these women were becoming attached to him and draining him of all his
energy. Colin’s pattern resulted in him neglecting his family, lying to his wife,
and entering into sexual relationships with the women he’d tried to help. It
was like Colin was living two separate lives but was not present in either.
However, the risk gave him such a high that he felt addicted.
I saw that Colin was walking on the cliff’s edge. He was gaining weight,
feeling heavy and powerless, and losing his energy and concentration. He
was risking his family and his life. Although it was difficult, Colin was willing
to confront his shadow and deal with his challenging childhood. We discov-
ered that besides the savior archetype, he also had a rebel inner child, who
loved risk. “The bigger the danger, the higher the thrill” was his motto.
Although the lighter aspect of the rebel child had allowed Colin to become
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successful, confident, and make 50-million-dollar deals, the shadow side was
seducing women and being seduced, lying, hiding, and living a double life.
Colin realized he was close to losing his family and possibly his life. He
began exploring his childhood, working with his inner child and learning
about his ancestry. Colin realized that if he did not deal with the patterns
he’d picked up from his parents, he would pass these on to his children.
Although his mother had died, Colin spoke to her spirit and found
peace. He then understood that his dad’s selfishness and cruelty came from
the lack of love he felt from his father. As Colin healed his past, he was also
able to heal his present, stop lying and cheating, and open his heart to his
family. He lost weight, left the corporate world, set up his own business,
began meditating and connecting to his inner strength. Colin’s willingness
to understand and work with his inner child changed his life.
The Archetype of the Inner Child
An archetype is a universally understood aspect of a personality trait, psychological pat-
tern, or behavior. Archetypes come from mythology and are part of our universal
psyche. Thus, they have a huge and active influence on our lives. The major
getically compatible with your partner. If you were honest, you would confront your
partner and work together on changing your relationship, or choose to leave the rela-
tionship. This would require courage, trust, candor and a lot of personal growth.
However, if you were to keep suppressing the fact that your relationship is not working
because you are afraid of being alone, you might become negative, aggressive, lie, cheat,
or cause destruction in your life and create dis-ease just to be safe.
37
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Inna Segal
A huge part of your healing journey is to confront your shadow aspect and take
back your power, your life force energy, and expand your freedom and the choices avail-
able to you.
Colin’s Story: Confronting the Shadow
Colin, a successful businessman, was married with four children. When Colin
first called me for a distance healing, he was extremely secretive and pro-
tective. While I was tuning into him, I received an image of a frog who was
trying to pass himself off as a prince. (I often see archetypal images that
help me to understand what is really going on in a person’s life.)
I had a strong impression that he was dishonest and destructive in his
life. After a little prodding, I discovered that Colin was trying to be a savior
to women who had been abused and who were often deeply unhappy.
His mother had experienced severe abuse from his father and had lost
several members of her family in her youth. As a child, Colin stood helplessly
by her side, watching her suffer. By trying to help the women who showed
up in his adult life, Colin was trying to save his mother. The problem was that
these women were becoming attached to him and draining him of all his
energy. Colin’s pattern resulted in him neglecting his family, lying to his wife,
and entering into sexual relationships with the women he’d tried to help. It
was like Colin was living two separate lives but was not present in either.
However, the risk gave him such a high that he felt addicted.
I saw that Colin was walking on the cliff’s edge. He was gaining weight,
feeling heavy and powerless, and losing his energy and concentration. He
was risking his family and his life. Although it was difficult, Colin was willing
to confront his shadow and deal with his challenging childhood. We discov-
ered that besides the savior archetype, he also had a rebel inner child, who
loved risk. “The bigger the danger, the higher the thrill” was his motto.
Although the lighter aspect of the rebel child had allowed Colin to become
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successful, confident, and make 50-million-dollar deals, the shadow side was
seducing women and being seduced, lying, hiding, and living a double life.
Colin realized he was close to losing his family and possibly his life. He
began exploring his childhood, working with his inner child and learning
about his ancestry. Colin realized that if he did not deal with the patterns
he’d picked up from his parents, he would pass these on to his children.
Although his mother had died, Colin spoke to her spirit and found
peace. He then understood that his dad’s selfishness and cruelty came from
the lack of love he felt from his father. As Colin healed his past, he was also
able to heal his present, stop lying and cheating, and open his heart to his
family. He lost weight, left the corporate world, set up his own business,
began meditating and connecting to his inner strength. Colin’s willingness
to understand and work with his inner child changed his life.
The Archetype of the Inner Child
An archetype is a universally understood aspect of a personality trait, psychological pat-
tern, or behavior. Archetypes come from mythology and are part of our universal
psyche. Thus, they have a huge and active influence on our lives. The major
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